EDC 503 Su 13 2013-06-27 - Thursday

EDC 503 - Education in Contemporary Society
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Class 02

Learning Goals

• Brainstorm some questions we have regarding schools in society
• Develop and begin to use a Personal Knowledge Base

Agenda

• Discussion: What does the Game of School have to do with School Reform?
  • Some related URLs:
    • "Grading Motivates Learning"
    • "Is this right?"
    • "Teach Passion"
    • Calvin & Hobbes
    • "To Do Whatever You Tell Me"
    • "Who's responsible for this?"
• How are our adopted books?
• KWL: What do we know about schools? What do we want to know?
• Impressions: Academic Autobiography Project
• Beginning up a Personal Knowledge Base in Evernote
  • Skills worth knowing: Clipping, Organizing, Tagging (for a lifetime), Linking, highlighting, summarizing, synthesizing.
  • Tagging for Graduate Students
  • Try it yourself.
  • Share your work!
• Close